The java CLI manual page says that a version string can be used with the -version:release option to specify that a particular version of the JRE should be used to run a JAR or class file.

Consider the following:

$ java -version
java version "1.7.0_11"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_11-b21)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 23.6-b04, mixed mode)
$ java -version:1.7+ myjar.jar
Error: Unable to locate JRE meeting specification "1.7+"
$ java -version:1.7.0_11-b20+ myjar.jar
Error: Unable to locate JRE meeting specification "1.7.0_11-b20+"
$ java -version:1.7* myjar.jar
Error: Unable to locate JRE meeting specification "1.7*"

These last three commands should have all ran the myjar.jar file, but none did.